Manufacture of buttons and studs



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T. W. F. SMITTEN.

. MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS AND STUDS.

No. 293,102. Patented Feb. 5, 188.4.

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THOMAS HF. S'MITTEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

MANUFACTURE BUTTONS AND STUDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,102, dated February 5, 1884.

' Application filed October 30, 1883. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS XV. F. Slurr- TEN, of the city of Brooklyn, inthe county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons and Studs, of which the following is a speeifi cation. V

The invention relates to buttons and studs in which the shoe is eccentric to the post or offset to one side thereof, and it is more particularly applicable to buttons and studs in which the post is formed with a contracted portion, or a portion of less width, so that it may be the more readily inserted into and removed from a button-hole. Such a button is shown and described in my United States Letters Patent No. 276,917, dated May 1, 1883.

My'invention consists in an improvement in the method of making a post and shoe for a button or stud in which the shoe is eccentric to the post, whereby the post and the shoe, or a portion of the shoe,-may be inexpensively formed from a single piece or blank ot' metal, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim, p

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 an inverted plan or back view of a button having its shoe eccentric to the post. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a post and shoe made'according to my invention, and Figs. 4 and 5 represent the blanks from which such post and shoe are produced. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a post and shoe of slightly modified form, also made according to my invention; and Fig. 7 represents the blank from which such post and shoe are produced.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The button shown in Figs. 1 and 2 consists of a head, A, a post, B, and a shoe, 0, all rigidly connected together.

The shoe 0 is eccentric to or offset from the post, one edge of the post being about coincident with one edge of the shoe, and in the opposite edge of the post B is a contraction, to, which facilitates the insertion of the button into a buttonhole and its removal from the buttonhole.

In Fig. 3 the post B is formed integral with a plate composed of two portions,b I). The blank for forming the post- B and plate b b is represented in Fig. 4.. It consists of-a post portion, B, and two approximately semicircular portions, 2) b, which together form the inner plate of the shoe.

The blank shown in Fig. 4: is bent 011 the dotted line 3 so that the portions b I) will extend at right angles to the post portion B. The portion B is then folded or doubled lengthwise on the dotted line 00, thereby formlng a flattened post having a double thickness, and bringing the two portions 7) 1) into proximity, so as to constitute, in effect, a single 1nner plate. I

The blank or plate 0 (shown in Fig. 5)1s stamped or out out slightly larger than the plate formed by the portions b b, and has its edge folded over the edges of the said portions 6 b, as shown in Fig. 3, and by said plate 0, which constitutes a covering or cap plate, the two portions 1) b are held together and kept from spreading.

If desired, the two folds or thicknesseswhich form the post B maybe soldered together, and then the two portions b b will be held to gether and against spreading, independently of the cap-plate c, and the latter may be used or not, as is most desirable.

The post and shoe B C(shown in Fig. (3) differ from the parts shown in Fig. 8 only in that the cap or covering plate 0 is alsoformed integral with the post portion B and shoe portions 1) b, the form of the required blank being shown in Fig. 7. In this example of the invention the plate or portion 0 is-connected with post portion B by a narrow neck, (I, and after the blank has been folded on the line 1/ to bring the portions 1) b at right angles to the portion B, and again on the line as m the blank isfolded at the neck (I, so as to bring portion 0 on the back of the portions 1) b.

The plate or portion 0 may have its edge folded over the edges of the portions 2) b, as

shown in Fig. 3, Fig. 6 representing said plate. or portion 0 before its edgejis foldedf 5 over. That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improvement in the method of making post of double thickness, and to bring the the post of a button or stud and a shoe eccenportions 12 1) into proximity, so that they will 10 trio thereto, which consists in first producing form, in effect, in single plate as and for the a blank having the post portion B and the purpose described.

5 shoe portions b b, in then bending the shoe portions 6 1) into a position at right angles to Vitnesses: the post portion B, and in subsequently fold- 1 FREDK. HAXNEs, ing the post portion 13 lengthwise to form a ED. L. BIORAN.

T. \V. F. SMITTEN. 

